friending, love memes, giftmemes, unfinished fics

[tielan]

I'm questioning whether I should bother participating in friending/love memes anymore, or the gift sessions where you put your name down and people (maybe) gift you.

I have really niche interests so far as fandom goes; I'm not in any kind of need, really. And I'm not really in any fandoms anymore, and certainly not any shared ones.

I'm also thinking about posting a whole slew of my unfinished fics. I have a LOT of them - coherent scenes and sections of a story that I just never finished. But I don't know how people will feel about them, particularly if I tag them on AO3. After all, I hate when one of those giant 'one fic per chapters' multipairing stories turns up - where one single chapter is relevant to your interest and the rest of it is other pairings that you don't care about.

Trying to work out how to post them - maybe as part of a series called "Unfinished Symphony"?

It's cooled down quite a lot, but I'm still hot and exhausted. The cider I had down the road at my friend's house didn't help; alcohol always makes me sleepy.

I feel like I don't quite know what I'm doing tonight and tommorrow. Well, I know what I'm doing tomorrow - I'm on church prayer, which is going to be interesting.

Rambling. I'm so tired.

Comments

[just_ann_now]

*waves from The Network*

I don't ever do friending memes either, but if I were to see your name on one, I would say something about how I always enjoyed your Maria Hill stories, and seeing Maria get some well-deserved love. And how I always stop by to read about your gardening and your chickens!

[gingicat]

I love the series idea, and that’s a great title.

[wpadmirer]

Unfinished Symphony sounds fine to me. Why not?

And the one chapter a day people are just Kudos hunters, which I find annoying. I usually just subscribe to something and then only read it when it's finished.

[pensnest]

I've tried to have a personal policy of not doing love memes, because the potential for hurt and disappointment is far too great to make it worthwhile! The gift things... I like the concept, and it is nice to be able to *give* something to someone, even though at this time of year, time for reading a bunch of fresh fics is, shall we say, diminished, and Moar Feedback is something I think we all crave. So, I sympathise.

Could you maybe post your scenes and sections with a brief sentence or two to cover the gaps? Unfinished Symphony sounds like a great title.

[jenab]

Unfinished Symphony sounds like a pretty good title for the series. I think a series would certainly work better than a multi chapter for tagging purposes.

[beatrice_otter]

I would post them as separate fics, tagged "Abandoned Work - Unfinished and Discontinued"

That way they're there for anyone who wants them, but everybody knows what's up.